A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

Emile M. Cioran
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
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Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insigni … ▶

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